Archive for the ‘Friends’ Category

Our good friend, Jessi, came to visit us this week. It was a lot of fun (and help!) to have her around, and the kids had a great time playing funny games and reading with her.

Jessi shows amazing promise as a playdough truck creator, especially when you consider that she hasn’t spent hours every day for the past three years studying different types of trucks. :) Jonah was pleased.

We also had our first week where it was pretty much sunny every day. What a relief. On Saturday, we headed down to the river for an Earth Day celebration. Jonah really liked sitting on the wall and watching things float downstream “because I think I’ve never been this close to an actual real river before!” (not quite true, but…)

Nora liked looking at it, too. She even got to see a duck!

Nora liked running around the little plaza on a beautiful warm afternoon.

On one of our very hot days, Jessi and I headed out early to take the kids to our great park with the huge sandbox and water features. It was one of the first times Jonah really spent time working on something in the sand. As much as he loves trucks and the idea of construction, he is not too thrilled about actually getting very dirty. On this day though, he did quite a bit of digging and helped make a castle (which later turned into a rest stop for the dump truck driver).

Nora sat on the side and was happy to watch Jonah and the other kids playing in the sand.

She was pretty pleased to get her hands on a shovel.

And then examined (but did not eat!) the sand on her fingers.

Nora was also a big fan of the ‘water tree’, reaching out to try to grab the water as it came down. Jonah even let himself get a little wet, too.

Later, back at the house, we played in the yard for a little bit after Nora won the I-will-not-take-a-nap battle.

Our good friend, Jessi, took the train down from Vancouver to spend a few days with us. She’s had a lot of fun with the kids – reading books and playing silly games with Jonah, and doing lots of baby holding while gathering up bunches of Nora smiles. :)

We’ve had a few visitors over the past weekend, and it’s been great to hang out with them and have more people around to laugh at Jonah’s silliness. Grandma and Grandpa came down for Jonah’s birthday. One of the great things about them (at least from Jonah’s point of view) is that they are totally willing to do the repetitive things that he loves, over and over and over….

Like helping ‘the guys’ load the tractor trailer, three dominoes at a time.

Or “I want Grandpa to undo that buckle again, please.”

Then our good friend, Jessi, came to see us before she headed back to Canada. She brought Jonah a collection of eight Curious George stories. However, one of them is ‘Curious George and the Dump Truck.’ I don’t think we’ll ever get to read any of the other stories. :)